ORDERING PLANS

Before ordering, please ensure that the model you have chosen complies with the municipal bylaws applicable to your project. Plans Design accepts no responsibility in this regard.

Your plan order can be placed online on our website or by phone. For changes to any of our plans, you must contact us toll-free at: 1-844-994-7526.

SHIPPING AND TRACKING NUMBER

We use an expedited postal service to ship our plans. We cannot deliver to military bases or post office boxes.

Once the plan has been dispatched, delivery time is usually around 2-5 working days, except in cases where additional time is required, in which case you will be notified as soon as possible by e-mail.

The PDF plan will be e-mailed to you as soon as the order has been validated by our in-house department.

PAYMENT METHODS and PRICES

All plan prices and plan modification fees are subject to change at any time without notice.

We accept the following payment methods: Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Paypal.

FEEDBACK AND EXCHANGES

All our plans are protected by copyright and we offer no exchanges or refunds. Please be sure of your choice of plan before ordering, and do not hesitate to contact us if necessary.

CONDITIONS OF USE

All Plans Design site texts, logos, concepts, graphics, images, information and documents, as well as the selection, arrangement and display thereof, remain the exclusive property of Publications Balsam inc. and are protected by the Copyright Act.

Plans Design (Publication Balsam inc.) hereby authorizes you to consult, view, copy, download and print the documents that are available for this purpose on our site, on the express condition that these documents be used solely for personal, non-commercial purposes; that they not be modified or redistributed; and that any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary notices be reproduced as they appear in these documents.

Any person wishing to obtain authorization to use elements protected by law, service marks or trademarks must imperatively make a request by contacting us to this effect.

COPYRIGHTS RELATED TO THE USE OF IMAGES AND DESIGN PLANS

YOU MAY NOT RESELL YOUR DESIGN PLANS, USE AN ILLUSTRATION, PHOTO OR FLOOR FOUND ON OUR SITES.

All plans displayed on our websites and/or created by Plans Design are protected by copyright law. It is therefore illegal to copy, reproduce or use, without authorization, plans, drawings and illustrations from this website or any other publication. It is also illegal to copy or redesign an existing home.

It is forbidden to resell a Plans Design plan,

whether or not you’ve built your home.

On any market or to anyone.

It is not permitted to copy, modify or resell a drawing or plan found in the various media. Each of these practices is illegal and constitutes a violation of the Copyright Act. Each offence is punishable by a fine of up to $100,000..

Therefore, it is essential to always purchase a set of plans or a license available from Plans Design, either to build on or to use the illustrations for promotional purposes. The purchase of a set of plans authorizes you to build only one house (unless you are a contractor and acquire the .pdf version of the plan), and it is also illegal to resell your plan after use.

WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?

Simply put, copyright means the right to reproduce. Only the owner of a work (very often its creator) has the right to produce or reproduce it, or to allow another person to do so. Copyright rewards and protects a creative enterprise by granting it the exclusive right to publish or use the work in any way it chooses. It can also choose not to publish your work and prevent anyone else from doing so.

COPYRIGHTABLE WORKS

Copyright applies to any original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work. Each of these general categories covers a very wide range of creative works. Here are a few examples:

Artistic works: paintings, drawings, maps, photographs, sculptures and architectural works.

The word “original” is of crucial importance in defining a copyrightable work. It goes without saying that no one can obtain copyright for a work created by another person.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

A copyright grants you the exclusive right to produce or reproduce your work, whether by publishing it, performing it, etc. By virtue of this right, you are the only person who can authorize these activities.

Anyone who reproduces your work without your authorization is engaging in copyright infringement; that person is infringing your rights. It goes without saying that the reverse is also true: if you publish, perform or copy someone else’s work without first obtaining their authorization, you are infringing their rights.

One form of copyright infringement is plagiarism, in which a person passes off someone else’s copied work as his or her own. An obvious example of plagiarism would be to publish or sell a plan devised by another person under your own name. Plagiarism can also mean using a substantial part of another person’s work. An example of this would be copying a plan by simply altering its dimensions or a few architectural elements.

Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

ARTICLES OF LAW

Here are the main articles of law that define architectural plans as works protected by copyright law:

Copyright Act ( R.S., 1985, c. C-42 )

R.S., c. C-30, s. 1.

DEFINITIONS

The following definitions apply in this Act.

“Artistic work” includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, architectural works, engravings or photographs, artistic works by craftsmen as well as graphics, maps, plans and compilations of artistic works.

COPYRIGHT ON THE WORK

The copyright in a work includes the exclusive right to produce or reproduce the whole or a substantial part of the work in any material form, to perform or represent the whole or a substantial part of the work in public and, if the work is unpublished, to publish the whole or a substantial part of the work; this right also includes the exclusive right :

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: RESPONSIBILITIES

Anyone who infringes copyright is liable to pay the owner of the right that has been infringed damages and, in addition, such proportion, as the court may deem fair, of the profits that he has made by committing the infringement and that have not been taken into account in fixing the damages.